WB’s Inexperienced Lantern Present Has Enlisted Damon Lindelof to Write It

Warner Bros. has had a Green Lantern TV series within the works for practically 5 years now, with slices of new information for its authentic iteration popping out a couple of times a yr. Our new information for 2024 signifies issues are apparently far sufficient alongside that the present’s writing employees may be public data, and it could be our first step in direction of an even bigger reveal within the close to future.

Directories for the WGA reveal the writers available for the sequence. For a lot of within the present, the largest title on the docket can be Damon Lindelof, greatest recognized for…nicely, fairly just a few issues, like Misplaced, The Leftovers, and extra not too long ago Mrs. Davis. He’s received earlier DC expertise with HBO’s Watchmen miniseries, on which he was additionally an government producer and showrunner. It’s doubtless he’ll be an EP for this—a place he’s had for nearly each present he’s had direct involvement in since Misplaced again in 2004—however what’s much less clear is whether or not or not he’ll showrun. That obligation was beforehand held by Seth Grahame-Smith, however he departed the sequence completely in late 2022, only a day after James Gunn was appointed DC’s new TV and movie head.

Fellow writers on the present embody Chris Mundy, a showrunner, EP and recurring author for Netflix’s Ozark, and Counterpart author Justin Britt-Gibson. Nexus Point News noticed Breanah Gibson (government story editor on The Penguin) and The Morning Present author Vanessa Kelly as further members of the writing workforce. Nonetheless, at time of writing, it’s additionally unclear who else is writing the present.

Apparently, every writers’ web page lists Lanterns as a 2024-2025 present. It could possibly be a goal yr that will get up to date as soon as WB locks down a extra agency date sooner or later, or possibly it’s anticipated to have a launch late within the yr that bleeds into 2025. We’ll discover out extra on Lanterns and its entire deal within the coming weeks, particularly with Comedian-Con not too far-off.

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